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MUMBAI: Former Maharashtra minister Narayan Rane and his son Nitesh Rane, accused of making remarks against the Gujarati community in the social media, failed to appear before the Bombay High Court today in response to notices issued to them based on a public interest litigation. The father-son duo did not appear either personally or through their lawyers, after which Justice Anoop Mohata deferred the matter by four weeks, reiterating an earlier court order asking the Maharashtra State Government to submit a status report on a probe against the Ranes.

MUMBAI:In what has become an habit, former Congress minister Narayan Rane has 'threatened to break away' after he was over looked for the post of the Maharashtra Congress president. The Congress leadership had on Tuesday announced that former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan would be leading the state unit while Sanjay Nirupam would be heading the Mumbai Congress. Rane who was in the reckoning with Chavan, immediately made his displeasure known and publicly criticised the Congress leadership saying that the 'opinions' of leaders in the state were not taken before making these appointments.

MUMBAI: Taking a trip down the memory lane, former Shiv Sena leaders Chhagan Bhujbal and Narayan Rane, who are currently ministers in the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, today said they owe their political identities to their erstwhile party. "Shiv Sena gave us our identity in politics. Had there been no Shiv Sena or Bal Thackeray , Chhagan Bhujbal or Narayan Rane would not have been in Maharashtra politics. Same is the case with Raj Thackeray ," both Bhujbal and Rane said.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Industries minister Narayan Rane today lambasted trade union leader Sharad Rao for the unwarranted strike by civic staff demanding salaries on the lines of the Sixth Pay Commission. Talking to reporters at Gandhi Bhavan here, Rane said Rao was a NCP leader and part of the ruling coalition. "He should take up and discuss grievances of the civic staff with Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister to find solutions rather than taking the extreme step of strike and holding Mumbaikars to ransom," Rane said.

MUMBAI: Congress leader Narayan Rane today said that AICC President Sonia Gandhi will be requested to intervene and resolve the deadlock over his resignation from the post of Industries Minister. Rane, told reporters here on the sidelines of his meet with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan that it was decided that Chavan will seek an appointment with Sonia Gandhi in the next couple of days and that he, along with Chavan and Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC)

NEW DELHI: BJP is set to step up its offensive on the Adarsh housing scam , disregarding some inconvenient facts that may come in the way. Party chief Nitin Gadkari knocked up the attack on the government several notches, demanding dismissal of the Maharashtra government for its alleged involvement in the scam. He said that it was a fit case for the application of Article 356 of the Constitution since the involvement of a procession of Congress leaders in the scam amounted to "constitutional breakdown " in Maharashtra.

MUMBAI: Senior Maharashtra minister Narayan Rane today said Congress would not tolerate insult to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan at the functions where the Prime Minister is present. Chavan yesterday skipped a function at Nagpur where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present, after being heckled by BJP supporters at another function at Solapur last week. "We will not tolerate our CM being insulted in future. Just as the PM's post has a certain sanctity and we respect it, so does the CM's post and everybody should respect it," said Rane.

KANKAVALI: Training his guns on Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan , Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane today said that Assembly elections results would not be different from the Lok Sabha polls if they were fought under the present leadership. When asked by reporters whether a different result (vis-a-vis rout of Congress-NCP in Maharashtra in Lok Sabha polls) was possible under the "present leadership", Rane, believed to be nursing the ambition of becoming the Chief Minister, said it would not be different and that was the reason he was going to quit the ministry tomorrow (as announced earlier)

MUMBAI: He is upset with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and has even said that he would be resigning from the Cabinet on Monday. However, on Friday, Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane attacked Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray instead of Chavan. Disappointed with Uddhav for saying that he would not find any place in the Shiv Sena and asking its ally, the BJP, to keep its distance from the Congress minister, Rane, who was once in the Sena, launched a no-holds-barred personal attack on Uddhav.

KANKAVLI (MAHARASHTRA): Stakes are high for senior Congress leader Narayan Rane , who is facing a resurgent Shiv Sena on his home turf in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district, where he is contesting the Assembly polls along with his son Nitesh. Rane's elder son Nilesh had lost the Lok Sabha election from Konkan's Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg seat in May this year and his close associates Ganpat Kadam, Subhash Bane, Rajan Teli and Ravindra Phatak have all deserted him to join Sena or BJP. Differences with Rane have led former Minister of State for Urban Development and NCP legislator Uday Samant into Shiv Sena, who is their candidate from Ratnagiri seat.